Table 6.
Chemical distributions of heavy oil (350 °C, 25 wt% ethanol)

RT Compound Relative area
Bio-oil CoMo/Al2O3 NiMo/Al2O3 NiFe/HBeta NiFe/zeolite Y NiFe/ZSM-5
Acids
3.3 Acetic acid 3.5 - - - - -
Esters
3.4 Acetic acid, ethyl ester - 1.7 1.8 1.7 2.9 2.1
Ketones
11.6 2-Methyl-2-cyclopenten-1-one - 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.4 0.4
12.0 Dihydropyran 0.4 0.4 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.0
12.5 2(5H)-Furanone 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.1
18.0 2,3-Dimethyl-cyclopenten-1-one 0.6 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.5 0.1
Aldehydes
35.4 Vanillin 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
43.1 Syringaldehyde 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Alcohols
45.2 Dihydro-coniferylalcohol 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Sugars
39.7 Levoglucosan 2.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Phenols
15.8 Phenol 0.3 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.7 0.8
19.2 Cresol 0.4 1.2 1.1 1.2 0.7 1.5
20.5 Guaiacol 0.5 1.4 1.5 1.4 0.9 0.7
25 4-Ethyl-phenol - 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2
25.7 4-Methyl-guaiacol - 0.3 0.1 3.3 0.2 3.1
29.5 4-Ethyl-guaiacol 0.3 0.9 0.6 0.5 0.3 0.4
32.9 Syringol - 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.3
33.1 2,4-Dimethoxyphenol - 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1
33.4 4-Propyl-guaiacol 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.2
36.9 4-Methyl-syringol 1.8 0.6 0.3 0.6 0.6 0.6
37.1 4-Propenyl-guaiacol 0.6 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.3
43.1 4-Propyl-syringol - 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.2
Total 13.6 8.9 8.6 11.5 8.6 11.1